Durse (left), 12, and Nunu, 6, play with slingshots at a coal miners' camp in the Jainitia Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya, Oct. 21, 2010. Durse works in the mines while his friend Nunu just lives there with his family. According to the NGO Impulse there are 70.000 children working on life threatening conditions in the coal mines in teh Jaintia Hills. According to Impulse, the youngest are just 7 years old.

The folks over at Redux recently put my portfolio up on their site. Have a look here…

Eastern European models are getting dressed up for a photo shoot for the magazine Ala, Istanbul, Turkey, March 12, 2012. Ala is a Muslim fashion magazine aiming at the growing number of urban, middle class and religious Turkish women.

Men stand in front of the Nizamuddin Markaz, the headquarter of the Tablighi movement, Delhi, March 26, 2010. In Nizaamuddin two opposing ideas of Islam collide, mystical Sufis and orthodox Tablighi.

Kampala, Uganda, 2011.

Libyan women celebrate the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, Libya, Sept. 2, 2011.

This is cool. My picture from Martyr Square in Tripoli has won an Award of Excellence at Pictures of the Year in the Impact 2012: Arab Uprisings category.

Syrians gather around the coffin of a slain man in a village in Idlib District, Syria, Jan. 14, 2012. According to villagers the man was a farmer who was shot by state security forces on his way to work.

Financial Times Germany, January 30, 2012.

Syrians demonstrate against the rule of Bashar al Assad, Idlib District, Syria, Jan. 14, 2012. The country has been gripped by a popular uprising for more than ten months that left some 5.000 people dead.

A man reads a newspaper and watches TV in a tea house in the neighborhood Fatih in Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 21, 2011. Despite Turkey being a model democracy for the post-revolution Arab world, it is one of the worst countries when it comes to press freedom. Currently, some 70 journalists are in jail. And recently around 30 journalist were arrested because of allged ties to militant Kurdish organizations. Turkey claims all journalists are in jail because of criminal charges and not their work as journalists.

Ethnic tensions and a controversial mullah in India, bored German soldiers in Afghanistan, a stalled revolution in Syria, Gaddhafi’s fall in Libya, elections in Egypt and much in-between: This was my 2011. Above is a slideshow with some of my favorite stories and pictures from this year.